Associate Director - Architecture

Role description

Experience 11 to 15 years

Location Atlanta Georgia

Role Summary

We are seeking a seasoned Technical Architect Microsoft Technologies GenAI who can lead enterprise solution architecture define scalable technology strategies and drive innovation across modern Microsoft ecosystems This role requires deep expertise in cloud native architecture strong handson experience in Azure and NET platforms and the ability to embed GenAI capabilities into enterprise solutions

The ideal candidate will act as a trusted technology advisor bridging business objectives with advanced architecture design enabling intelligent automation and ensuring high quality scalable and future ready solutions

Primary Skill Set Must Have

Architecture Technical Leadership

Deep architectural expertise in NET NET Core Angular and Microsoft Azure ecosystem

Proven experience designing enterprise scale cloud native and AIpowered solutions on Azure

Strong command of microservices APIfirst architecture event driven systems and security frameworks

Handson experience in GenAI architecture including LLM integration prompt engineering frameworks retrieval augmented generation RAG and enterprise adoption patterns

Experience working with Azure OpenAI Cognitive Services Databricks and AIML platforms

Ability to define reference architectures reusable frameworks and best practices for scalable delivery

AI Data GenAI Integration

Strong experience in designing AIML pipelines MLOps and realtime data processing architectures

Expertise in GenAI implementations such as conversational AI document intelligence and intelligent automation

Knowledge of vector databases embeddings and AI orchestration frameworks

Ability to embed AIdriven decisioning and automation into business workflows

Solution Design Governance

Strong experience translating business requirements into scalable solution architectures

Ownership of architecture governance design reviews and technical decision making

Ability to ensure scalability performance security compliance and reliability across solutions

Experience in defining technology roadmaps modernization strategies and future state architectures

Secondary Skill Set Good to Have

Cloud Dev Ops

Strong familiarity with Azure Dev Ops CICD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code ARM Terraform Bicep

Experience in cloud cost optimization monitoring reliability engineering and observability frameworks

Advanced AI Emerging Tech

Exposure to Responsible AI AI governance frameworks and ethical AI practices

Experience in multimodel AI architectures and AI orchestration strategies

Consulting Leadership Skills

Strong consulting mindset with ability to engage business stakeholders and drive solution adoption

Experience mentoring technical architects leads and engineering teams

Ability to influence technology strategy at enterprise and client levels